Generation of transgenic potato plants highly resistant to potato virus Y (PVY) through RNA silencing

Molecular Breeding

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 185-197

  Missiou, Anastasia ^a   Kalantidis, Kriton ^b   Boutla, Alexandra ^a   Tzortzakaki, Sergia ^b   Tabler, Martin ^b   Tsagris, Mina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Coat Protein gene; PTGS; PVY; RNA silencing; siRNA; Solanum tuberosum; Transgenic plants

Indexed keywords

GENES; PLANTS (BOTANY); PROTEINS; VIRUSES;

COAT PROTEIN GENES; POTATO PLANTS; POTATO VIRUS; POTATO VIRUS Y; PTGS; RNA SILENCING; SIRNA; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; TRANSGENEIC PLANTS; TRANSGENIC POTATO PLANTS;

RNA;

EUKARYOTA; POTATO VIRUS X; POTATO VIRUS Y; POTYVIRUS; SOLANUM; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 4444296566     PISSN: 13803743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:MOLB.0000038006.32812.52     Document Type: Article

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